Brant v. Virginia Coal & Iron Co.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that equity courts traditionally would not recognize equitable estoppel absent “positive fraud or concealment, or negligence so gross as to amount to constructive fraud”
• requiring a showing of either “misrepresentations, affirmative acts of misconduct, or intentionally misleading silence” to establish estoppel

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